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The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition (Hardcover)
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The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the work of an otherwise shadowy
figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St.
Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and
enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as
the great synthesis of early ascetic writings, the Ladder presents
a spirituality self-consciously rooted in the literary and
theological tradition of the Desert Fathers and the Great Old Men
of Gaza. Despite its incredible popularity among monastic and lay
readers, the Ladder is virtually unknown in scholarship. In this
work, Jonathan L. Zecher offers a sustained study of the Ladder's
spiritual vision, which is contextualized within an equally
sustained genealogical survey of Climacus' own tradition. The
Ladder is built up through the 'memory of death', a term referring
to admonitions of early authors to remember one's inevitable but
unknowable death and to contemplate the divine judgment which would
follow to cultivate particular ascetic, Christian, lifestyles in
their readers. In the literature that formed Climacus, every aspect
of the 'memory of death' varied considerably, but Climacus draws
these together in the Ladder so that death and the judgment which
follows defines a symbolic framework within which monks reflect on
their past and approach the future. Climacus also took up
metaphorical practices of dying to oneself and others to craft an
idea of spiritual progress in the imitation of Christ taking into
account failure and frailty. At the heart of this study is the
abiding question of how tradition forms, and in the Ladder is an
outstanding example of how unflinching fidelity to tradition
results in a creative, synthetic achievement.
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